Saguenay
Province of Canada electoral district
Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
District created1841
District abolished1867
First contested1841
Last contested1863

Saguenay was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, in Canada East, to the north-east of Quebec City. It was created in 1841 and was based on the previous electoral district of the same name for the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. It was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.

The electoral district was abolished in 1867, upon the creation of Canada and the province of Quebec.

Boundaries

The electoral district of Saguenay was located on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, north-east of Quebec City, and extending north to the provincial boundary (now in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region).

The Union Act, 1840 merged the two provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada into the Province of Canada, with a single Parliament. The separate parliaments of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were abolished.[1] The Union Act provided that the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Lower Canada and Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new Parliament, unless altered by the Union Act itself.[2]

The Saguenay electoral district of Lower Canada was not altered by the Act, and therefore continued with the same boundaries which had been set by a statute of Lower Canada in 1829:

The County of Saguenay shall be bounded on the south west by the said County of Montmorency, on the north east by the north easterly boundary of the Province, on the south east by the River Saint Lawrence, including all of the Islands in the River Saint Lawrence nearest to the said County and in whole or in part fronting the same, and on the north west by the northern boundary of the Province; which County so bounded comprises part of the seigniory of Beaupré, the seigniories of Gouffre, Eboulemens, Murray Bay and Mount Murray and the Township of Settrington.[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Saguenay was a single-member constituency.[2]

The following were the members of the Legislative Assembly from Saguenay. The party affiliations are based on the biographies of individual members given by the National Assembly of Quebec, as well as votes in the Legislative Assembly. Party" was a fluid concept, especially during the early years of the Province of Canada.[4][5][6]

Parliament Members Years Party
1st Parliament
1841–1844		 Étienne Parent[lower-alpha 1] 1841–1842 Anti-unionist; French-Canadian Group
Augustin-Norbert Morin[lower-alpha 2] 1842–1844
(by-election)		 French-Canadian Group

Notes

  1. ↑ Resigned on October 14, 1842, on appointment as Clerk of the Executive Council: Côté, Appointments and Elections, p. 59, note (43).
  2. ↑ Elected in by-election, November 28, 1842: Côté, Appointments and Elections, p. 59, note (44).

Abolition

The district was abolished on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act, 1867 came into force, splitting the Province of Canada into Quebec and Ontario.[7] It was succeeded by electoral districts of the same name in the House of Commons of Canada[8] and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.[9]

References

Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Statutes of Lower Canada, 13th Provincial Parliament, 2nd Session (1829), c. 74

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